TRUMP IS MEETING WITH AN EX-BANK CEO WHO WANTS TO ABOLISH THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD

by Gold Broker ·
Published November 29, 2016
· Updated November 29, 2016

TRUMP IS MEETING WITH AN EX-BANK CEO WHO WANTS TO ABOLISH THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD

As President-elect’s Donald Trump’s transition rolls on, more and more attention is being paid to possible selections for a variety of high-ranking positions and meetings that might help decide these appointments.

On Monday, Trump will meet with John Allison, the former CEO of the bank BB&T and of the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.

Trump’s has on the campaign trail questioned the future of the Federal Reserve’s political independence, but Allison takes that rhetoric a step further. While running the the Cato Institute, Allison wrote a paper in support of abolishing the Fed.

“I would get rid of the Federal Reserve because the volatility in the economy is primarily caused by the Fed,” Allison wrote in 2014 for the Cato Journal, a publication of the institute.

John Allison, former CEO of BB&T, on meeting with Trump: It looked like a job interview and also a sincere effort to get a little advice pic.twitter.com/tFX5xF7WDo

Allison said that simply allowing the market to regulate itself would be preferable to the Fed harming the stability of the financial system.

“When the Fed is radically changing the money supply, distorting interest rates, and over-regulating the financial sector, it makes rational economic calculation difficult,” Allison wrote. “Markets do form bubbles, but the Fed makes them worse.”

Allison also suggested that the government’s practice of insuring bank deposits up to $250,000 should be abolished and the US should go back to a banking system backed by “a market standard such as gold.”

Allison also argued for higher capital reserves of up to 20% of assets at banks. On the other hand, he also argued that the government should repeal three of the broadest banking regulations.

“We should raise capital standards, but it is even more important to eliminate burdensome regulations — including Dodd-Frank, the Community Reinvestment Act, and Truth in Lending,” Allison wrote. “About 25 percent of a bank’s personnel cost relates to regulations. Banks cannot pay the regulatory costs and have high capital standards.”

Goldbroker was founded by French investor and entrepreneur Fabrice Drouin Ristori. He graduated from Kedge Business School in France in 2004 before moving to Malta to develop two companies specialized in the online gaming sector when the European gaming market was about to open.
After selling both companies he started his own private investment company, FDR Capital Ltd, and quickly started to invest in physical gold and silver (2008). He specialized in analyzing the gold and silver markets and started to publish analysis.